Although Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 laptops are still around the corner awaiting a May release date, we’ve finally had our first peek at what they’re capable of. Early results promise a small uplift over its predecessor in a similar modest step forward that we’ve come to expect from Blackwell architecture.
Leaked via Geekbench, RTX 5060 scores between 102,564–109,431 points in the OpenCL benchmark, placing it around 18% faster than a typical RTX 4060 laptop GPU, which averages around 89,099. It’s a decent enough bump, but hardly transformative and nowhere close to the gains we saw moving between 90-class models.
The benchmark appears to stem from systems under development by GPU maker Colorful. Both come stacked with 32GB of memory, with the listed iGame M15 Origo rocking an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H at its heart, while P15 Pro pairs an older but still beefy i9-13900HX. These won’t be the only laptops
Fortunately, a single synthetic test doesn’t tell the full story, as Blackwell isn’t just a new sticker. Although it sticks with 8GB of VRAM, the new GPU swaps to faster GDDR7 modules, netting more bandwidth. It also comes with improved scheduling, AI acceleration, and better ray tracing throughput, not to mention how DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation can pull battery life up by its bootstraps.
Nvidia’s first-party numbers paint a pretty picture with more than double the frames at a lower latency, but with little-to-no details on how it achieved such results, it’s worth tempering expectations. We’ll know more about RTX 5060 mobile’s capabilities when we see it go head-to-head in reviews.
| Frame rate | Latency | |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 5060 laptop | 146fps | 56 |
| RTX 4060 laptop | 60fps | 68 |
| RTX 3060 laptop | 21fps | 115 |
Ultimately, RTX 5060 mobile looks to do exactly what’s expected of it according to this leak: move the needle just far enough to entice Ampere users to upgrade but not quite so much that Ada Lovelace owners will take the leap. If I were a betting man, I’d probably put money on the desktop version offering similar uplifts compared to its predecessor, but we’ll need to wait until Computex for answers to any remaining questions. We’ll have boots on the ground, so make sure to follow Club386 on Google News for the latest as and when it lands.
